I had a Max 9 trial going until my hard drive went, but I never could figure out why, when used with thunderbird, the latest one, set as default mail, and set up in max9 enterprise as an "other mapi" client, etc., when I dragged a contact to the douments tab, the window would pop up to write a letter. I choose one, one of the ones already there (boilerplate ), it opens up the max word processor, with the letter in there, with the contact's address, etc. Fine so far. Then, I select file ( or whatever it was ) send-via-email, and T/Bird pops up a warning that another program etc... so I say yes, which is right on the mark so far, then the message appears in the tb outbox, and is being sent.
I check to see what was sent in the sent items a second later, and it was a empty email, with an RTF attachemnt, which was my message. Now, it's pretty 13th century for the program to do this, like the programmers at max never heard of html, or never saw their competition all support it ( but I digress ....) I can still live with the attachment, but in the sent email, there's a bunch of garbage lines, it looks like code, like 10-15 lines of it about parameters, and whatnot, in the message that went out. The RTF attachment is fine, as far as I can see, but the empty message is not so empty!
Why all the garbled characters in sent email? And, while we're on it, in such a modern program, where's the bare-minimum email features like HTML and in-line messages instead of attachments ? ( I;m not interested in in-line ascii text, and I'm not that certain many people are. I realize corp email systems frequently handle ascii, but that doesnt mean that a modern competetive CRM should be crippled down to the lowest common denominator )
Just my opinion. I do know that a marketing campaign can send an email, html, but that's such a chore to do for one email, it's not a solution.
Anyone with ideas?
thanks
ps- no i idnt try with outlook- im trying not to use outlook- i was happy to see that max offered support for alternate email systems.
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